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...other hand, consider an older Spaniard like Ignacio Zuloaga, long regarded as the discreditable essence of flashy, virtuoso academism. The picture he has in the show--a portrait of a sulky-looking, middle-aged dwarf holding a mirrored sphere the size of a soccer ball, in homage to that god of all Spanish realists, Velazquez--is a masterpiece of unsparing scrutiny and direct painting, and it brings you up with a jerk...
...equally vested interest in seeing that our public figures remain the same. Bill Gates represents the prerogative of wealth. Mark McGwire, physical power. Stephen Hawking, pure, disembodied genius. We need a stable iconic currency. What if Dick Clark, the poster child for immutability, suddenly began to degenerate like the portrait of Dorian Gray? We'd be appalled. And none of us really wants our President, Bill Clinton, to change even one iota. No one wants to see him toiling monastically on his memoirs or with a wrench in his hand, building low-income housing for Habitat for Humanity. We expect...
This astutely reported account of the rise of the late Secretary of Commerce from Harlem's black bourgeoisie to the apex of political power is a warts-and-all portrait of a smooth operator. Holmes, a former TIME correspondent and now the chief race-relations reporter for the New York Times, notes that Brown's strength was making connections between the black world he sprang from and the white power structure. His weakness, which Holmes unflinchingly describes, was an inability to resist the financial and sexual rewards that came along as he clawed...
...have never spent an hour volunteering at a shelter, and that most of our fellow students would readily stab us in the back in order to climb the extracurricular ladder. It is true that my indictment does not impugn every individual here. But, I am deeply certain that my portrait does accurately represent the culture of Harvard...
...this really be the stodgy old Washington Ballet? None other. Fluctuating Hemlines, a sharply observed portrait of a group of young people who peel off their outer garments and expose their inner selves, is the work of Septime Webre, the new artistic director. Since arriving in the nation's capital last fall, he has transformed this unadventurous company into a lively laboratory for his pop-flavored style of classical dancemaking and brought an equally unusual approach to company management, which seeks to make perhaps the whitest of art forms relevant to a racially fissured community...